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    - can sign in on host but not client computers We got direcway a few months ago and msn messenger was working fine then we had some problems with the direcway. After getting those problems cleared up I can no longer sign in to msn messenger on the client computers. The host works fine but not the clints. Direcway says it is out of their expertise. (No Kidding) I have had a couple people tell me that it has to do with the IP addresses and the gateway address. But I don't know what they should be. Could anyone help with this problem. I can use the host but it is my 9 year old sons computer and he does school on it when I want to use msn. Please help Susan Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43898
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    - Port forwarding and MSN Messenger Hi all, I'm trying to figure out if any port forwarding needs to be done to get MSN working properly. I have a Linksys router with Comcast cable internet. With Messenger 6.1, everything works fine except for voice. Do I have to forward a port to get this working? Also, if I have two computers at home I want to use MSN messenger with, how do you forward a port to two different computers? Thanks for the help. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43892
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    - 6.1 just hangs! I appear to be on but can not click on any contacts or email link, when I put my cursor over anything in messenger it just show the hour glass. Others could see me but I could not get their IM's. I have tried rebooting several times. It has worked OK intermitanly. If I turn it off with Task manager it says program not responding. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling 6.1, delted the key for regedit befor I reinstalled I updated Direct X. I can get in on another computer I am running XP Pro and have messenger come up when I boot this has been going on the last three days ever since the server was down Monday night Any ideas? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43886
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    - GPO and MSN Messenger Is possible to manage MSN Messenger options via GPO? If possible, where can I find those templates. What I really want to do is enable this option: "Automatically keep a history of my conversations" Thanks in Advance albertof Caracas Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43885
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    - MSN 6.1 and Symantec Firewall 2004 Does anybody know how to configure Symantec PF 2004 to enable sound when using MSN. I am able to get video with no problem and sound if I disable the firewall. I am presuming all I need is the relevant ports (both TCP and UDP). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Ian Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43883
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    - status lost In MSN Messenger 6 I noticed that when the connection (ADSL) is interrupted, my status setting is not retained. So when I have set it to "away", and I come back, this setting is lost and people have been trying to reach me in vain. I think this (bug) can be solved by resetting the status to the previous one before the interruption. -- regards, |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43881
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    - messenger plus Hi, I have here a win98 pc with the toolbar of mysearchnow. I think it came with messenger plus? Anyhow, I cannot remove it with either spybot and adaware.... Any links to WORKING tutorials on how to get rid of this? Thx Hans Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43870
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    - msn messenger runing in background Hey, on my computer msn runs in the background as son as it starts up, even though its not meant 2 (e.g. the box which sez run msn when windows starts is unchecked). It doesnt appear in the bottom rite hand corner, but if i press ctrl+alt+del and click the proceses tab (im using XP), it claims msmsgs.exe is running, and so when i cannect to the internet people can talk to me even though i have no idea that msn is open. plz help Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43869
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    - MSN Messenger Addin SDK Does MSN Messenger 6.1 support an API or SDK that can be used to develope AddIns? -- James Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43867
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    - unix hi, i dont know if this question has been asked before, but is the vison of msn for unix? Thanks Neil Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43866
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    - WINDOWS MESSENGER LOOKING FOR WINDOWS MESSENGER FOR WINDOWS 98 Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43863
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    - 0x80004005 MSN :-((((( greetings! we all, obviously, have almost the same problem, but noone is offering any solution! since the 10th february i can't sign in on MSN from any pc. i use the newest version, with nothing new installed in meantime. everytime i try to sign in, i get the error message 0x80004005. nothing new in this newsgroup, i think. i have, however, no problems signing in over web (the same account, .net passport and hotmail). so, someone should give us here a constructive solution or at least, explanation to this problem! i don't think that Mr. Johnatan Kay has an easy job here, but his solutions were of no help so far! so if microsoft's staff has only titels but no knowledge, then we don't have to wonder why is microsoft software not working properly! best regards to all! -- Sanja Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43861
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    - IP address How can I determine the IP address of online contact in MSN Messenger? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43859
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    - Connection MSN 6.1 I have 2 pc. A Windows XP Pro at home and a Windows 2000 pro. at work. for about a week ago, I got a problem with sigon with my MSN Messenger 6.1 (The new version). I have tryed to remove the string in the Regedit / and the remove the program - And then reinstalled the program. But every time, i try to logon, it comes with fail - and then restart you messenger... Do any one know a solution to this problem. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43858
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    - How to stop MSN Messenger when entering Hotmail.com? Hello I was wondering if someone knows how to stop MSN Messenger 6.1 from starting whenever I enter http://www.hotmail.com ? Every time I log in there, MSN Messenger also starts and I do not want that. -- Menno ===================== My 3D Art can be seen on http://www.3dart4u.com ===================== Remove antispam in mail address when mailing me Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43857
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    - Messenger voice through a firewall Problem: I have an international remote user who wants to speak to a local user without using a normal telephone so as to avoid paying for international phone calls. The remote user is on WinXP and a dial-up line with a software firewall (Norton). The local user is on WinNT4 with a DSL line and a hardware firewall (Watchguard SOHO box). I am not a numpty! I understand WinNT, WinXP, ports, firewalls etc etc, but I'm not familiar with Messenger or Netmeeting. I have searched high and low on Microsoft support and Knowledgebase and have been unable to find simple information about what ports the different versions of Messenger and Metmeeting use. All I can find is Microsoft's baby-talk tech support information. No hard info. regarding port usage. Can anyone tell me where Microsoft publish information regarding the port usage for the various versions of MSN Messenger, Windows messenger and Netmeeting? I don't need patronising rubblish about "click this button and type in this number etc". I just want the port usage. Also, I've seen a post here saying that some port usage changed from MSN messenger 5 to 6. Does that mean some features are not backward compatible? Thanks in advance, Nigel Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43856
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    - 0x81000301 - what is happening to MSN??????? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43854
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    - MSN Messenger behind firewalls I work for an organization that has about ten people at one location using a Novell network and another ten people scattered at other location, mostly universities. We frequently connect by teleconference, but sometimes it would be nice to have some video communication. I have looked into NetMeeting, but it seems to have problems working through the multiple firewalls that we have. Does anyone have any experience using MSN Messenger in a similar situation, i.e., Novell BorderManager firewall on one end and unknown (maybe Linksys) firewall on the other? Thanks for any help. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43853
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    - XP & W2K - Outlook & Messenger Hi, Why cant I kill messenger when using Outlook Express on my Windows XP box, but can when I'm using my Windows 2000 machine. An error message is reported telling me that OE uses features of Messenger,... but I'm using the same version on each machine ? Steve Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43852
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    - Error 0x8100031 - STILL CAN'T BE SOLVED I followed all the instructions from the newgroup but i stilled couldn't sign in. I am experiencing this problem for almost a week!!!!! Pls Help!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43851
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    - MSN have a history feature? I am new user to MSN Messenger. I recall when I use to use ICQ there was a history of all conversations. Does Messenger have this also? -- Doug Mitchell (jmjm at sympatico dot ca) Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43841
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    - MSN messenger over vpn Hi, is there a way to configure msn messenge to work over vpn without clearing the use default gateway on the remote network checkbox? -- Sarmad Aljazrawi B.Sc. Computer Science, MSDBA, MCP www.aljazrawi.net Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43840
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    - two versions of msn at the same time hey, can somebody please help. i have a new computer and currently running on it is msn version 4.7. however i want to download msn version 6.1. but when i do it does not over-write the older version and i end up with two versions of msn signing on at the same time. I cannot delete the older version my computer isnt letting me and when i go to add or delete programmes it isnt there. my friend is having the same problem. can someone please help - i will be very grateful. thankyou. anna Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43835
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    - different kind of UPnP problem A puzzler for the experts perhaps. I have a home network with half a dozen XP clients (all SP1 with critical updates). These are arranged in an Active Directory Domain environment. I have a Netgear VPN endpoint firewall/NAT but one that is UPnP capable and enabled. There are Windows 2003 server-based DNS and DHCP services on the network so I don't use the DNS/DHCP in the router. Exacly one of the client machines on the network can successfully make two-way voice/video conference hook ups with systems outside the local network. All other systems are unable: symptoms are video hookup in both directions but no audio is received at the remote end from my machines. I have tried explicitly deleting entries in the "internet connection" properties; doesn't help. I've tried installing the UPnP components that aren't installed by default with XP (although the working system doesn't have those it seems). I've tried disabling the QoS scheduler (although it's not disabled on the working client). Since I have one machine that works perfectly, I conclude that the issue must be with the client system setup somehow rather than the firewall/UPnP per se. What could I possibly have set differently on the one "golden" system that seems to work just fine? The one system that works was at the point of needing retirement some time ago...I've nursed it just for this one ability but it may fail finally anytime. I could really use help to get one or all of the other systems working. Any suggestions for me, please? I'm sort of at a loss :- ( Thanks in advance. Cheers, Mark. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43831
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    - Questions about alerts I am new to MSN Messenger and have a couple of questions about alerts. I have set up various alerts on MSN Messenger. No problems with this. To reduce screen clutter, I close the messenger window (but remain signed-in). The questions: 1. An alert shows up as a popup. It stays for a few seconds and then disapears. If I was not looking at the screen when it popped up, I would never know an alert has arrived. So, is there a way to keep the alert on screen until I dismiss it? 2. I see that alerts keep accumulating in the Alerts tab. Are they cleared automatically? If so, how does it work? Or do I have to do it manually? If so, how do I do that? Thank you. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43830
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    - getting disconnected while on msn messege I can get on and not have any trouble can be on computer for 3 or 4 hours and no proublems. But when i get on msn messege after about 5 or 10 mins get disconnected and knocked off line. I am connected by phone line , can anyone tell me what would cause this and what to do? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43829
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    - Popup messages I would like to know how I can remove all of the pop up messages that are now coming up through "hotbar". I do not want "hotbar" on my internet site and would like to block all of them so would like to know how to do it. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43828
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    - I get this message during discussions "The following message could not be delivered to all recipients" Dear all, This error message only started when I updated to version 6.1. In the middle of a discussion to a single or group, Messenger simply doesn't deliver the message. I then must retype the entire message, which soon becomes very frustrating. Thinking that there may be a conflict of the versions, I have looked to see if I can uninstall the old version. However, I don't know if this is a problem, and cannot find out how to do this either. Has anyone else experienced this problem, and if so how was it corrected? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43818
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    - Messenger 6.1 no longer starts up Weird problem has recently started. Installed MSN Messenger 6.1 last week. Got it working with video and audio. Al of a sudden this week, it doesn't start. I doubloe click the icon in the Start button and nothing. I open task manager and its not there. I try to start it with Task Manager open, and it shows up for about a second and disappears. I have uninstalled it, cleand out the registry entries, deleted the folders and reinstalled (several times) and the same thing keeps hapening. On the other hand, Windows messenger still works fine. Anyone have any idea what the heck is going on? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43816
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    - Pop-ups after fresh XP Install OK, this is driving me nuts. Just installed XP AGAIN and then Norton 2003, still have message windows popping up for hardcore porn and for a site selling anti-popup software. I have read somewhere that this is a Messenger security issue, can someone help me get rid of them? I will not be held to ransom by anti-popup software comanies black-mailing users into buying their s/w after attacking you with popups! Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43815
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    - Error 1603 Was wondering what error 1603 is - there is no mention on any of the help menus. the installer information gave me the following error: "An error occured during the installation of assembly component {3A14AA35-9486-4282-8449-AAE866A17D23}. HRESULT: -2147319761." after i hit ok for the above message, i get: "MSN Messenger setup has failed with error code: '1603'. Please go to the MSN Messenger Web site and download the software from there." (which I did!) any idea what this is all about? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43814
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    - Need Help with Messenger 6.1 can't use I appear to be on but can not click on any contacts or email link, when I put my cursor over anything in messenger it just show the hour glass. Other could see me but I could not get their IM's. I have tried rebooting several times. It has worked OK intermitanly. If I turn it off with Task manager it says program not responding. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling I am running XP Pro and have messenger come up when I boot Any ideas? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43813
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    - Sign-In Problem (0x80004005 Error) This is driving me crazy. For the past week I keep getting the 0x80004005 error when I try to sign into MSN Messenger. I doesn't matter what PC I try to use I still get the same message. I created a new account and logged in successfully. I believe that there is a problem with my account on the Microsoft side however I keep getting generic responses from MSN tech support. I found a forum on another site that addressed this issue. Apparently there was a guy who worked at Microsoft who verified that this problem was on Microsoft's side and he actually was able to fix a couple of accounts of people who e-mailed him. Unfortunately he shut down his e-mail after getting flooded with requests. Does anyone know if Microsoft is looking into this problem? I'd like to be able to access my previous account so I can get all the contacts that were stored there. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43812
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    - Cannot Log In I have the same problem too,cannot log in. Have you solve Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43811
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    - can't connect I can connect on any PC except mine, anyone cant connect on my PC when i try to connect on my PC i receive a message telling me that my user name and password does not exist but when i log on another PC everything is allright. Thanks. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43810
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    - 0x81000301 This error message always appears and says that I am not connected to the internet. My internet is working, I am not able to sign-in to msn on this computer although I can sign in on other computers. Please help. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43809
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    - Webcam on MSN5.0 and NT4 I run on WinXP and MSN6.1 and use my webcam with other XP folks with no problem. We have one user running on NT4.0 using MSN5.0 (last available version for NT) and is unable to connect to our webcam. The message basically says that the user is using a version of Messenger that does not support this feature Is there any plug-in which will allow an NT4.0 user using Messenger 5.0 to view other folks with webcams??? MSN website pages of Messenger 4.7 would show webcam capabilities. Any ideas would be extremely appreciated! Thx in advance Eddie Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43808
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    - Windows Messenger Vs. MSN Messenger I'm using Windows Messenger on my pc to working purpouses. Now, I want install MSN Messenger because I've read that both of them can work together. When I start to install MSN Messenger it tells me that I have to uninstall Windows Messenger first. Does anybody know an workaround for this? Can I use both programs at the same time?? Thanks a lot for your help. Emi. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43806
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    - MSN/Windows Msngr - voice channel won't connect Me and a friend have run Yahoo Messenger, both voice and video work. Now we are trying MSN Messenger. Typing at each other and video channel connects fine, but when we try voice, I get "connecting to Donald", but after a minute it stops trying and says that Donald has the stopped voice. It never connects. We tried Sunday - Tueday (the 10th, Feb). I thought it was a server problem at first, because we were connected, and viseo worked, but now it's 3 days - anyone know what is going on? Besides MSN Messenger, we've also tried Windows Messenger. Same thing. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43805
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    - Email count not updating My messenger is still not sending me a popup window when I receive an email and it always says "no new emails" on messenger itself. This has been going on for over 2 weeks. Whats the story? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43804
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    - connecting to msn messenger I do not know what is messed up, but it is messed up Is there anyway that someone can call me and lead me through this Thank you kindly Rod P.S. I cannot tell you what is wrong, I do not know so I cannot ask you a question Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43802
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    - trouble with 6.1 last night I could not get in at all, which I think was a MSN problem. today I have had problems all day. I appear to be on but can not click on any contacts or email link, when I put my cursor over anything in messenger it just show the hour glass. Other could see me but I could not get their IM's. I have tried rebooting several times. It has worked OK intermitanly. If I turn it off with Task manager it says program not responding. Is everyone having problems or just me. I am running XP Pro and have messenger come up when I boot Any ideas? Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43798
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    - Turning off MSN Messenger When I go online and open Internet Explorer and Outlook Express MSN Messenger starts up and I start getting messages from my son's buddies via Messenger. I've looked to turn off Messenger but must be missing something. How can I turn Messenger off and yet keep Outlook Express and I.E. running without interruptions from Messenger. Thanks for any help, Ian Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43794
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    - MSN Sign out problem. Solve it now. Ok, so you got your Johnathan etc on here, well to let you know http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_mess_disable.htm Will COMPLETELY remove Windows Messenger and forever rid you of the problem where Windows Messenger signs you out of MSN Messenger. Now you notice I don't tag any MS certification and all, that's because I don't need it. I have been trying my own solutions and so forth to get rid of Windows Messenger and in the end it was 99% gone.. well then I re-discovered Doug Knox and his utility which another Microsoft person said, no no don't use it. Well there's one reason he said that. Because it REALLY DOES remove Windows Messenger. Don't worry about profile crap he spewed on about, if he really used the program he'd realize upon a reboot it actually asks you directly, "do you want to remove all your Windows Messenger Profiles", you say "Yes" and your problems are forever solved. It WILL NOT mess up your MSN Messenger and it WILL NOT mess up your computer. All my functionality, audio, video, file transfer it all works. So you can trust me or forever listen to these guys who are giving you partial solutions. Why they wont promote Doug Knox and his solution, beyond me. I've got my suspicions(but who cares).. So it's up to you solve the problem or keep posting and checking here for updates, go use an alternative Messenger. Your choice. I'm not looking for praise and I'm not looking for pats on the back or staged thank you's. I'm just providing you the solution to fix the problem period. I work a fulltime job and don't have luxury of time like Johnathan but I will help who I can help when I can. Again, your choice. No hair off my back. Doug Knox = Microsoft MVP -- Cheers =), Tom A non-certified but knowledgable person. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43793
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    - Messenger display picture Can someone please tell me why my messenger display picture keeps changing itself. Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43788
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    - Lockup after audio hookup also using Sidewinder Headset Lockup after messenger audio hookup also using Sidewinder Headset w/Game Voice 1.5. They install a version of messenger too, is there a conflict? Could I just run one of them and be functional? I can connect and hold a clear conversation, but when I disconnect, I'm locked up. I'd've ask this on the Game Voice forums except for the fact that they don't have one up. I''ve uninstalled and reinstalled as well to no avail. I've got a P4 1.8Ghz w/a Gig of RAM and I run WinXP Pro SP1 Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43786
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    - Totally free chat-rooms, and live cam-rooms, available for all of your chat needs...!!! - M-Chat_Planet-(banner).jpg (0/1) M-Chat Planet - The place to meet fun and sexy people. TM - 24/7 all free all the time...enjoy! - http://www.m-culture.com - http://www.m-culture.com/Web-intro_pages/M-Chat_Planet/M-CP_main_page.html Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43779
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    - What's going on with MSN Messenger? Says my password is invalid. Which is crap. I can access my hotmail account just fine with Outlook = Express and it is the SAME account as in Messenger. I cannot access = Hotmail from the Web. Broken there also. This began about 2 days ago = after the Messenger shut down for some needed service repairs. Hasn't = worked since. --=20 George Hester __________________________________ Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43771
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    - MSN 6.1.0207 crash on connect I open Messenger. Everything is fine. I'm login in and MSN crashes in front of me. If I sign in with another messenger using the same account, everything is fine, but with MSN Messenger 6.1.0207, I can't. What's happening? It was working before with my old computer. help! Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43768
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    - Sound Problems with MSN MEssenger/Others I have experienced problems for months with MSN Messenger. Symptoms are: No sound on "friend logging in" No sound on "new mail alert" No sound on "recieved message" This is also appraent on other programs such as Outlook Express... for New Mail Notification Completion of downloading of mail Also appears as issue on Window Start-Up/Shutdown Sounds I am trying to deterine the root cause of the issue which may not specifically be a MSN Mesanger issue. An ideas? Is this a windows explorer issue? I can open sound properties for each of these programs and play and here the associated sound but the sound will not play during normal use. Any help appreciated Tag: Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger Tag: 43767

I have Windows XP and my dad has Windows 95. How can I
set him up on Instant Messenger from my computer? He has
a hotmail e-mail address as I do. I am on Instant Mess.
and he wants on it too.
Is there some way I can put him on it? I also know his
password to his hotmail address.

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Re: How to get another person onto Instant Messenger by me

me
Thu Feb 12 18:36:19 CST 2004

i posted the answer in the ABOVE post "INSTANT MESSENGER"
>-----Original Message-----
>I have Windows XP and my dad has Windows 95. How can I
>set him up on Instant Messenger from my computer? He has
>a hotmail e-mail address as I do. I am on Instant Mess.
>and he wants on it too.
>Is there some way I can put him on it? I also know his
>password to his hotmail address.
>.
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